Our thanks go to Steve Casimiro, West Coast Editor of National Geographic ADVENTURE Magazine, for this piece about tree climbing that appears in the December 2005/January 2006 issue. Buy the magazine! It will inspire your enjoyment of the natural world, and it will inform you about places, activities and equipment, all in the energetic full-color style you expect from the National Geographic Society.
You can't access this story online at the NGS website, so we put it up for you here.